Joyce E. Kelley is Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery where she teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature, children’s literature, and poetry writing.  After a childhood spent in Norman, Oklahoma, Dr. Kelley attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania, receiving degrees in English and music, and then pursued graduate studies at the University of Iowa where she received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English.  Before joining the faculty at AUM in 2008, Dr. Kelley taught for one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.  Dr. Kelley’s articles have appeared in a number of journals and collections, including The Journal of Narrative Theory, Victorians, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Children’s Literature, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, The Space Between:  Literature and Culture 1914–1945, Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing, Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century, Virginia Woolf:  Profession and Performance, and several Critical Insights volumes.  She has published a monograph on the women modernists and travel, Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body (Ashgate, 2015), and an edited collection, Children’s Play in Literature: Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child (Routledge, 2019).  Dr. Kelley received AUM’s Emerging Distinguished Teaching Professor Award in 2013 and the university’s Distinguished Research Professor Award in 2024.  She is also a devoted member of the cello section of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.